Nike was happy, real happy. She was toe to toe with Asterisk, who she was sure was younger. Nike loves the feeling as she and her exchanged blows, but none to connect with either side. She thought of something to stop Asterisk's momentum. She turns her shield into a tower shield, but her hand was in a position that the part comes put horizontally.

Blocking the shield with the shaft of her weapon while back-stepping, Astrid spun her weapon around once more to fire another shot at Nike before going into another flurry of attacks with her weapon in double-headed scythe form.

This time Nike was more prepared, she saw the shot coming up based on Asterisk's movements so she drove her tower shield into the ground and blocked the attack, feeling the knockback but did not move thanks to a sturdy base, she hears the scythe blades sliced against it.

Ah a tempo...Nike lifted her shield out and rushed at Asteriak, shield facing forward and the head of Prometheus pointed towards Asterisk.

When Nike lifted her shield, Astrid's weapon had just been transforming into a spear and she stepped backwards, then thrust outwards to meet the other woman's spear with extreme accuracy. The two weapons met at their very tips, points rubbing against each other as sparks flew out.

Nike grinned brightly. It felt so good to fight seriously with someone on equal footing. As the sparks flew, one of them accidentally caused a dust vein that was in between to explode. Nike had a small shock but she did not show it as her shield managed to protect her from the impact.

Seeing the spark hit the crystal, Astrid attempted to backstep, but it was too late. In an explosion, she was thrown back and upwards before orienting herself. Firing her weapon backwards, the bullet causing a large crack in the audience-protecting forcefield to form, she shot towards Nike at high speeds while opening the rear blade to straight mode, pointed towards the woman.

Moderate damage to shield durability if blocked (The rounds blocked earlier should have dealt severe damage to Eva but I won't care about those much, just chock it up to a way higher yield point than Goliath armor, because I know you don't want the shield to be broken too quickly.)]

Nike stepped back quickly before the spear hits her. She shall show no mercy now. She quickly goes back to Asterisk, giving her no time to breath as she swings Prometheus in a flurry, a gold blur to the eyes.

Astrid smiled as Nike stabbed her spear forwards. Transforming the forward blade of her weapon into pole axe form while blocking the spear, the blade closing down on Prometheus, trapping it. Yanking on it, she pointed the barrel of her weapon at Nike's head and fired at point-blank range.

Nike reacted faster. She felt Asterisk tugged the spear head and she lifts the axe head upwards away from her head just in time before any serious damage could happen to her. She heard the gun fire and felt ringing in her ears and suddenly had blurred vision and smoke filled her nostrils. Not like any of them mattered to her, she couldn't show weakness in a fight. She shakes off the feelings as she kept the weapons interlocked and slid into a kick.

(She fires while yanking. Why would she not do them at the same time? XD She's not a poorly written video game AI. Also, remember that just being close to the barrel of the weapon while it fires would cause Nike's ears to be ringing from the sound, along with a bright flash that occurs and a large amount of smoke.)

When Nike slid into her kick, Astrid fired her weapon again while simultaneously yanking back on the weapon, allowing it to send her flying backwards a few meters. If Nike continues to take hold of Prometheus, it will send the both of them flying too.